Joined: 10 July 2005Posts: 23149Location: Where there are handsome heroes and sexy villains.. all that need some lovin' ;)Country:Gender: Female

Well if you take a look at the bios we have already for Lord of the Rings characters, it should give you an idea of the style we are looking for. It doesn't have to be exact, as I know it will be hard to copy Arweb's wording etc. But as long as it's well written, I don't think it will matter that much if it looks like it has been written by someone else.

As you can see, there are a few characters who cross over from LotR to the Hobbit. I'm not sure how many character bios we actually need for the Hobbit, the Dwarves certainly, and characters like Radagast. But I guess the minor characters are not needed, just like the minor LotR characters have been excluded.

But we have characters like Gollum, Gandalf, Bilbo, etc, so I don't think anything needs to be changed with those bios. I can just add them to the Hobbit section and leave them as they are.

To be honest, I don't care if you only write one word a week, I've been waiting so long for anyone to be willing to work on the bios, I would be happy with one word.

Joined: 10 July 2005Posts: 23149Location: Where there are handsome heroes and sexy villains.. all that need some lovin' ;)Country:Gender: Female

@ Bellatrx - no there is no deadline for you. Just as and when you can write them is fine. If you can kind of post updates here now and then so I know what you're both up to, that would be great. It's just so I have an idea when I might need to start getting ready to code etc.

@ Lhun - if you want to send it via PM that would be good. Sometimes I have problems receiving PM's so I'll post here and let you know what I get it.

Joined: 26 October 2005Posts: 2953Location: Between the Shire and EreborCountry:Gender: Female

I'll read through Thorin's bio one more time to see if I'm completely satisfied with it, so I'll probably send it to you tomorrow. Next I'll start working on Thranduil's.

EDIT: Do we want to base the bios on the books/appendices, or can we also rely on some background information that has been provided by Peter Jackson & Co? Yesterday I started to look for some information about the other Dwarves (so all besides Thorin), and based on the Hobbit there's not much to go on. They don't appear in any other Tolkien book either, so those bios will be very short and quite uninformative.

Joined: 10 July 2005Posts: 23149Location: Where there are handsome heroes and sexy villains.. all that need some lovin' ;)Country:Gender: Female

I was thinking about maybe making a new topic just for the character bios, so it will be easier for everyone to know what everyone else is doing, and maybe we can make a master list of all the characters that we need a bio for, and I can add either of your names to each character as you go along? It just saves us taking over this thread.

I think, although I agree with you that in some cases there will be little to go on, the the bios should keep to the written works of Tolkien, whether that's The Hobbit or anything else he wrote. It will just be in keeping with the section and also the LotR bios.

I think it could be a good idea to have another thread for it. Then it'd be easier for others who might want to help to see what would need to be worked on, and it would help prevent two people writing a bio for the same character if there's an updated list with who's doing what.

Would reviving the Member Awards help live the place up, you think? I was looking over the section and it seemed like it was a good fun. Maybe there could at least just be one, to see how it might affect the site, and then possibly it could become more annually or regularly?

Bellatrix, I had eye on the Members Awards for some time already. This was huge fun and it would be awesome to have this competition going on once again. And it would be even more fun if there were more than one award.

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